Analyzing Chagall's The Flying Fish

Art, a beautiful creature that reflects our world. We all have a same world, but different culture, different experience and different character cause us view the world completely different. Art is the thing that allow us express our emotion and dream, it gives us a chance to depict the world in our eyes through beautiful colors and unique shapes. Whether it is cubism or abstract, realism or impressionism, they are all part of the beauty. Those thoughts and styles make up some segment of the world we see, art also helps us identity what is beauty and how to develop it. So it is important to understand the beauty and strength of different art style, and find out which perspective should we view those paints. In this paper, I will analyze Marc …show more content…
After reading Chagall’s biography and past works, those symbolic figure would be really clear. In 1944, Chagall’s first wife, Bella, passed away unexpectedly while they move back to France from United States. He was conflicted about leaving the country where his wife was buried, but in 1948, he finally moved back to France. Since this is the Fourth Anniversary of Her death, there is a reason to believe Chagall starts to miss Bella. In “The Flying Fish”, the embracing couple should represent Chagall and Bella, the bride represent Bella not his new wife because he draws the bride as a ghost or a soul, and their bridal dressing may show how ever-present she was to him. The rooster is known for being a representation of fidelity, stands near with the couple floats among the flowers (or rose) can be represent although he has new love now, but he will always love and remember Bella, this love and feeling will never change. Chagall also used dark blue cover whole work to increase this feeling of sorrow. The background illustrates a floating fish holding candlesticks that make reference to the Jewish religion. Chagall was very like to representing religious symbols in his work because he thought it was necessary to express his identity as a Jewish person. The floating fish represent Chagall’s father who worked in a herring factory; the fish could represent as a reminiscence of his father, or an autobiography of himself. The village around vase and the church in far back could describe as Chagall’s life of childhood: lived in a small town, poor, and Jewish environment. An important detail is every window on house is open, that could means Chagall’s will of freedom and change. The village and opened window can also represent his effort and desire in his childhood. The upside-down house blocks the main thoroughfare could represent the doubt of Chagall’s future life. The